Episodes 1-4 Outline

Episode 1: Tom's Gang (chapters 1-4)
-Huck is told Tom is going to the bad place (hell) and Huck says he’d rather go there than the good place (heaven) and be without his friend

-Huck is compared to Moses

-Huck and Tom play a trick on Jim and make him think he’s been abducted by witches by hanging his hat on the branch above his head

-Huck, Tom, and a few other boys create a gang

-They talk about murdering people and making the women fall in love with them

-They plan on robbing gypsies but they end up being a group of Sunday school children

-Huck gives his money to Judge Thatcher because he knows he Pap will show up and spend it all

Episode 2: Huck and Pap (chapters 5-7)

-Pap shows up
-Pap is always drunk

-Pap gets arrested and falls off a roof

-Pap imprisons Huck in a cabin

-Legal fight over Huck: a Judge won’t allow the Widow to have Huck because Pap is family and they don’t want to separate family

-Huck finds a canoe and escapes from the cabin

-Huck stages his own death and float down to Jackson Island
Episode 3: Jackson Island (chapters 8-11)

-Huck investigates a fire he hears on the island

-Huck finds Jim on the island

-Jim has run away because he knew he would be sold south if he didn’t

-Jim and Huck move up to a cave because it was going to rain

-Huck puts a dead snake in Jim’s bed and the mate bites Jim

-Huck and Jim ransack a house floating down the river and find a dead man inside

-Huck goes to St. Petersburg disguised as a girl and finds a woman whose husband is going to the island that night to find Jim

Episode 4: The River (Chapters 12-16)

-Jim and Huck set off down the river

-They find a wrecked ship and find gangsters on board

-Their raft floats away

-They steal the gangster’s boat

-They find the raft

-Huck and Jim get separated because Jim went around one side of the island and Huck around the other

-They are reunited and Huck pretends like it was just a dream Jim had

-Jim realizes it actually did happen and gets offended, and Huck decides to stop playing tricks on Jim

-Huck eavesdrops on a big raft full of men fighting and listens to a story about a baby in a barrel

-Huck is going to turn Jim in

-Huck is stopped by men in boats who ask who’s on the raft and want to go see

-Huck implies the man onboard has small pox

-The men give him $40 and leave

-They lose the canoe while they were sleeping

- Their raft gets destroyed by a steamboat and Huck and Jim get separated again